Perhaps Obama is a “cultural” candidate, not a truly political one. By cultural, I mean symbolic of a world view. By political, I mean a candidate with domestic and foreign policy opinions, goals.

Hilary was a political candidate; her views centered on policy, practical political matters that her constituency agreed with.

Obama seems to represent the other half of the left, that half that believes they’ve lost the political and economic arguments but own the culture, and want the culture to rule over politics and economics.

If there’s truth in this analysis it explains why the press doesn’t care about his platform. To them his cultural symbolism is his platform.